Joanne Martin

Research Statement

Joanne Martin is best known for her research on organizational culture. More recently her work has shifted to the study of gender in organizations. Recent projects focus on large-scale, cross-institutional efforts to improve gender equity, here and abroad; the process by which gender is socially constructed in organizational settings; and the subtle and often unintended ways organizational cultures place women at a disadvantage.

Bio

Joanne Martin is the Fred H. Merrill Professor of Organizational Behavior, Emerita, and, by courtesy, Sociology at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. Martin received a PhD in Social Psychology from Harvard in 1977 and honorary doctorates from Copenhagen Business School in 2001 and the Vrej University in Amsterdam in 2005.

In addition to her work at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford, Professor Martin has been elected to serve on: the Board of Governors of the Academy of Management; the Stanford University Advisory Board (reviewing all tenure appointments) at Stanford; the Board of Directors of C.P.P., Inc.; and the International Advisory Board of the International Center for Research in Organizational Discourse, Strategy, and Change, for the Universities of Melbourne, Sydney, London, and McGill.

Martin has received numerous awards, including the Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Award from the American Psychological Association in 1988 (for a paper with Thomas Pettigrew on barriers to inclusion for African-Americans); the Distinguished Educator Award from the Academy of Management in 2000, the Centennial Medal from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, for research-based contributions to society, in 2002; and the Distinguished Scholar Career Achievement Award from the National Academy of Management, Organization, and Management Theory Division in 2005.

Academic Degrees

• Honorary Doctorate, Social Anthropology, Vreje University, Amsterdam, 2005
• Honorary Doctorate, Economics and Business Administration, Copenhagen Business School, 2001
• PhD, Social Psychology, Harvard University, 1977
• BA, Smith College, 1968

Academic Appointments

• At Stanford University since 1977
• Trust Faculty Fellow, Stanford GSB, 2005-2006
• Visiting Scholar, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, 2004–2005
• Visiting Scholar, Copenhagen Business School, Spring 2004 and Spring 1998
• Trust Faculty Fellow and James and Doris McNamara Faculty Fellow, Stanford GSB, 1990-1991
• Ruffin Fellow of Business Ethics, Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Virginia, 1990
• Visiting Scholar, Australian Graduate School of Management and Department of Psychology, Sydney University, 1989-1990

Awards and Honors

• Distinguished Scholar Career Achievement Award, Academy of Management, 2005
• JMI Distinguished Scholar Award, Western Academy of Management, 2003
• Centennial Medal, Harvard Business School, 2002
• Distinguished Educator Award, Academy of Management, 2000
• Winner (with Thomas Pettigrew), Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize for Research, American Psychological Association, 1988
• Promising Young Scholar Award, Western Academy of Management, 1982
• Dissertation Award from American Psychological Association, Division 14, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 1978
• Lena Lake Forrest Research Fellowship from Business and Professional Women's Foundation, 1977
• Sigma Xi Dissertation Award, The Scientific Research Society,1976

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